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His head was turned by too great success.

Seneca the Younger

What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Attack Blow Revenge Wise
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Blessed Blessing Confidence
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Health Inside Love People
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Desire Greater Progress
His head was turned by too great success.
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Great Success Success
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Education Men Teacher
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Destiny Drag Guides
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Medicine Men Search Sick
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Happiness Life People
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Mind Speech View
What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Made Own Progress
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Book Mind Together
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Freedom Men Simplicity
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Grace Judge Pain

His head was turned by too great success.

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